Adepero Oduye
Birthday
1978/01/11 (47 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Adepero Oduye hails from Brooklyn, New York City by way of Nigeria. She is a graduate of Cornell University; and has studied acting with Wynn Handman, Austin Pendleton, and Susan Batson. Her name is pronounced "Add-eh-pair-o Oh-due-yay." Her theatre credits include Danai Gurira's play Eclipsed, at the Yale Repertory Theatre; The Bluest Eye, at the Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatres; and Fela!, in the AEA workshop, directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Ms. Oduye first starred for wri...Read more
Acting
(2011) Pariah
as Alike
(2013) 12 Years a Slave
as Eliza
(2009) If I Leap
as Zipporah
(2012) Steel Magnolias
as Annelle
(2013) The Door
as O
(2011) Touch of Evil
as The Outlaw
(2005) On the Outs
as Adepero
(2015) The Big Short
as Kathy Tao
(2006) Half Nelson
as Crack Smoker
(2015) Emily & Tim
as Meg (Segment 5)
(2017) The Dinner
as Nina
(2018) Galveston
as Loraine
(2017) Geostorm
as Eni Adisa
(2017) To Be Free
as Nina Simone
(2018) Viper Club
as Keisha
(2018) Widows
as Breechelle
(2007) Pariah
as Alike
(2020) Tazmanian Devil
as Elizabeth Ayodele
(2021) Lines
as ---
(2022) Five Days at Memorial
as Karen Wynn
(2021) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
as Sarah Wilson
(1990) Law & Order
as Traci Sands
(2001) Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jackie
(2009) The Unusuals
as Regina Plank
(2010) Louie
as Tarese
(2019) When They See Us
as Nomsa Brath
(2020) Monsterland
as Amy Cooke
(2024) Eric
as Cecile